Comments on: Bullying and Aspergers

By: Curtis Maybin

Curtis Maybin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:51:24 +0000

They need to get a handle on this at sometime

Thanks
Curtis Maybin
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Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:41:03 +0000

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By: Laretha Hulse

Laretha Hulse — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:35:00 +0000

Thank you so much for your post. My 7 year old has AS and I blogged about a situation we are in with bullies just the other day. It helps to read the view of fellow Christians. I love that the internet is full of life affirming Christians sharing their journey. Thank you for sharing yours, it has helped me more than you know!
Laretha
http://hulsefamilybeautiful.blogspot.com/

By: Amy

Amy — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:13:00 +0000

I can relate to this. My oldest son who is 13 years old also had/has mild aspergers and has been bullied at school. We’ve not only had to teach him how to stand up for himself but we’ve been to his school and had a few meetings with the principal and some of his teachers. Since then it’s been alot better, and now that he knows he can defend himself alot of the boys are leaving him alone.
I’m sorry your son is going throgh this, it’s not fun at all.

By: Madeleine

Madeleine — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:25:00 +0000

Private schools have more freedom to operate independantly; they are further out of the state’s reach than integrated schools so the parents and the communities running them get more say in how they operate.

By: Shem Banbury

Shem Banbury — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:19:00 +0000

Totally agree Madeleine

I have mention to my wife about home schooling a couple of times but she is against it as I would probably get the work done by 10 and then take the boys to the beach.

I am interested in your reason for putting private schools above integrated and state schools. In your opinion what do they do better?

By: Madeleine

Madeleine — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:20:00 +0000

Shem the choice is simple. The call to care for, instruct and educate our own children is prior to the call to care for our neighbours. You can't send your kids out to get burned in the name of trying to help someone else's.

Make the best call for your kids and your family, for their education, care, future and safety. There are plenty of children, families and communities you can still interact with even making the choice to home school, plenty of non-Christians home school.

My preference is home schooling over private schooling and private schooling over integrated schooling and integrated schooling over state schooling. However, our family situation, our physical location (the lack of good, affordable private schools in our area), our income means I cannot right now make my top choice so I make the best choice I can and I try really hard to make the best of it by supporting the kids and us through it.

By: Shem Banbury

Shem Banbury — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:43:00 +0000

Dominic you raise some interesting points about the value of education and schools.

As a teacher I firmly believe in the importance of an education. For my mind too many young people dont give their best at getting an education and regret it later on.

I sit firmly on the fence when it comes to the debate of home schooling v 'normal' schooling.
As a Christian I believe we need to be in the world as much as possible. I am not implying those that home school aren't 'in the world' - just that we need to have Christian students in our schools and teachers in our classrooms.
I also believe schools provide an important social/ sporting/cultural development for students that is difficult for non school children to have.
On the other side of the coin homeschooling, if done correctly, usually produces brighter students and helps students at the other end of the academic scale. Homeschooling also means that children dont have the same degree of pressure on issues such as bullying, drugs, sex etc.

I guess when my children are school age I will have to make a choice of a state school, a Christian school or home schooling.

By: kiwipolemicist

kiwipolemicist — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:28:00 +0000

My response to this was too long for a comment so I turned it into a post:
http://kiwipolemicist.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/why-do-school-bullies-get-a-slap-with-a-wet-bus-ticket/

By: KarenPease

KarenPease — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:56:00 +0000

Oh, Madeleine, how I feel for you and your family– most especially Christian. I was bullied in school 30 years ago, and that kind of fear and humiliation doesn’t go away… I try to tackle school bullying in my young adult novel, Grumble Bluff, in a non-threatening way– and address it in the sequel even more. I hope that I can have a small impact on both bullies and victims. I firmly believe that we need students– peers– to take an active stand on this issue, because they have influence on others their age… wouldn’t it be great to have it become “cooler” to be kind and tolerant of people’s differences, than it is to be mean and disrespectful? Good luck to you, and my best to your son. Karen Bessey Pease, author of juvenile fiction, roomtomove@tds.net